LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH: FORBIDDEN PRACTICES AND SPIRITUAL HERESIES
Book ID/图书代码： 06568012B55977
English Summary/英文概要： Examines the left-hand path and reveals the masters of the tradition
• Explores the practices and beliefs of many left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Hell-Fire Club, and heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects
• Investigates many infamous occult personalities, including Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, and Anton LaVey
• Explains the true difference between the right-hand path and the left-hand path--union with and dependence on God versus individual freedom and self-empowerment
From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many practices, cults, and individuals across the ages. Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., examines the methods, teachings, and historical role of the left-hand path, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its underlying influence in current world affairs, and reveals which philosophers, magicians, and occult figures throughout history can truly be called “Lords of the Left-Hand Path.”
Flowers explains that while the right-hand path seeks union with and thus dependence on God, the left-hand path seeks a “higher law” based on knowledge and power. It is the way of self-empowerment and true freedom. Beginning with ancient Hindu and Buddhist sects and moving Westward, he examines many alleged left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Yezidi Devil Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire Club, the Bolsheviks, the occult Nazis, and several heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects.
Following a carefully crafted definition of a true adherent of the left-hand path based on two main principles--self-deification and challenge to the conventions of “good” and “evil”--the author analyzes many famous and infamous personalities, including H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino, and reveals which occult masters were Lords of the Left-Hand Path.
Flowers shows that the left-hand path is not inherently evil but part of our heritage and our deep-seated desire to be free, independent, and in control of our destinies.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 检查左手路径，揭示传统的主人
• 探索许多左手群体的实践和信仰，包括崇拜的设置、地狱火俱乐部、苏菲异教、琐罗亚斯德教,基督教和穆斯林教派。调查诸多臭名昭著的神秘人物，包括Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, and Anton LaVey 。解释右手和左手之间的差异，联盟和依赖与个人自由和自强对立的上帝
• 从黑魔法和恶魔崇拜到诺斯替教派和葛吉夫的第四种方法，左手路径已经与很多实践、信徒和跨越年龄的个体相联系。Stephen Flower 博士检查了方法、教义以及左手的历史角色，从最初的印度坦陀罗哲学到其对现实世界的影响，并揭示了历史上被真正称为“左手领主的”哲学家、魔术师和神秘人物。
• Flowers解释尽管右手寻求与上帝的联盟以此依靠上帝，但是左手寻求基于知识和力量更高的律法。它的方法时真正的自由、自强。从古老的印度教和佛教教派以及向西运动，他检查了许多所谓的左手群体，包括崇拜的设置、地狱火俱乐部、苏菲异教、琐罗亚斯德教,基督教和穆斯林教派。遵循一个精心设计的定义即左手路径是基于两个原则——自我神化和挑战传统的“善良”和“邪恶” ，作者分析了许多著名的和臭名昭著的个性，包括H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino,并且揭示了什么样的神秘大师是左手路径。Flowers发现左手路径的本性不是邪恶的，它只是我们追求传统和根深蒂固的追求自由、独立以及掌握自己命运的愿望的一部分。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“左手路径哲学最终接受了Stephen Flowers博士一个客观的和非常详实的阅读，强烈推荐”——Adam Parfrey, co-author of Ritual America 这本书将成为这个领域的经典之作——Nevill Drury 博士，《从天堂盗火：兴起的现代西方魔法》的作者。
“Left-hand-path philosophy finally receives an objective and extremely informative reading from Stephen Flowers, Ph.D. Highly recommended.”
Adam Parfrey, co-author of Ritual America
“This book will surely be hailed as a classic in its field.”
Nevill Drury Ph.D., author of Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic
About the Author/作者介绍： Stephen E.Flowers博士，在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的日耳曼语言和中世纪研究院获得博士学位，研究德国哥廷根大学的神秘学历史。作者写过超过24本书，包括《密封的魔力》，他是Woodharrow 研究所的主任。 Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Germanic languages and medieval studies from the University of Texas at Austin and studied the history of occultism at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The author of more than 24 books, including Hermetic Magic, he is the director of the Woodharrow Institute
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